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Correspondence between Dora Trench and Bertha Turnor.

  • IE OCL P131/2/2/3/3
  • Subseries
  • 1 August 1889-22 March 1895
  • Part of Loughton Papers

For much of their lives Dora Trench and Bertha Turnor spent their time traveling separately to places such as Cuba, Mexico, and Scandinavia. This sub-series contains letters recording their experiences, life events and well wishes for each other.

Dora's holiday to Scandinavia.

  • IE OCL P131/2/2/3/3/1
  • File
  • 1 January 1889-18 September 1889
  • Part of Loughton Papers

File of letters from Dora Trench to Bertha .
In the letters Dora describes her travels across Sweden and Norway with Benjamin Bloomfield Trench. Dora expresses her astonishment that English people do not visit countries such as Norway and her joy at seeing natural phenomena such as the fjords.

Letters from Dora Turnor to the Turnor family, 1866-1893.

File of letters between Dora Turnor and her father Christopher Turnor, her mother Lady Caroline Turnor, Bertha Turnor, Graham Turnor and Cecil Turnor.

The majority of the letters were sent to Bertha Turnor who is addressed as 'Tuz'. The letters were sent from across Europe as Dora visited places such as Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France and Genoa, Italy. Topics covered within the letters include Dora's ongoing struggle with her health as she deals with asthma, her meeting with friends, her day to day activities, her husband Benjamin Bloomfield Trench and her impressions of the places she visits.

File also contain letters stitched into two covers from Lady Caroline Turnor (neé Finch-Hatton), Stoke Rochford, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England to her daughter Dora Trench (neé Turnor). The letters are of a personal nature informing Dora of her day to activities, news and dispensing advice. Contained with the cover are loose pages of household notes.File of letters sent to and from Dora Turnor when she was a child from family and friends. Her Friends include Josepha Martenson, Copenhagen, Denmark; Edith Holland, Kemerton court Tewkesbury, England; E. Blythe, The Vicarage, Hammersmith, England and Mrs Askew.

Turnor family.

File of photos of members of the extended Turnor family. The majority of the file consists of photos of Bertha Turnor during her childhood and early adult years. Other family members pictured include Graham Turnor and Herbert Turnor and [Edmund Turnor].